"Zhao Qian, Sun Li, Zhou Wu, Zheng Wang......"

"Zi said, learn and learn from time to time, and it is very happy......"

"One by one, one by two, one by two, two by two......"

The sound of Lang reading aloud wafted in the school hall in Keelung Town, turning into a pleasant sound tide in the early morning, making the passers-by and farmers turn their heads to look at the school.

The school under the command of Hongmen, unlike the private school and the official school in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, is breathtaking in terms of area alone.

In the center of Keelung Town, where every inch of land is at a premium, there is an area of nearly 50 acres of land in the primary school of Bengang School alone, in addition to the school and dormitory, there are playgrounds, trails and gardens for students to play and exercise in their spare time.

With the expansion of the Hamburgers' influence in the Eastern territories, Westerners want to maintain friendly relations with the Hongmen people, so they will naturally prepare all kinds of gifts for the Hongmen as they like.

At this time, the cultural attainments of Westerners in astronomy, physics and other aspects have been far behind the Eastern Ming Dynasty, if placed in the original history, although Matteo Ricci, Guo Jujing and other Western Catholics, as well as Xu Guangqi, Bi Fangji and other Oriental literati worked hard to spread Western culture, but in contrast, in the eyes of Chinese Confucian literati is just a small way, never really attracted attention.

However, in Hongmen, Li Tianyang has been collecting all kinds of books from Westerners, but in the past, because of his lack of influence, although there were Westerners who liked him, but under various factors, there were still a lot of books hidden by Westerners, and he was unwilling to give them to Orientals.

In addition, the translation of these books is also a big problem, a little attention will appear in the narrow sense of the translation, but become a wrong knowledge, so often the translation of a book is often half a year and a year, it can be barely completed, this is still Hongmen wealthy, with gold and silver to raise dozens of people scale translators to work together, otherwise the time will be longer.

Therefore, the students of the primary school of Bengang Academy do not focus only on the Four Books and Five Classics as they did in the Ming Dynasty, but have to learn arithmetic, physics, biology and other miscellaneous subjects that are regarded as miscellaneous subjects in China.

In the middle school, students also have to practice and master various practical skills, such as farming and grafting crops; Carpenters, shipwrights, and other tools are used to operate axes, saws, and other tools.

In this way, the space required for the school is larger, and the area of at least 100 acres makes the secondary school not like the primary school to place the school in the town, but needs to be placed in a remote area outside the town to accommodate so many projects.

In the higher-level university department, because of the sharp decrease in the number of students, the area of this school is not as good as that of the secondary school, but it is only larger than the primary school.

Keelung has a resident population of 50,000, so the town's primary and secondary schools are located in the four neighborhood committees in the southeast, northwest and northwest, and they attend four schools according to the neighborhood committees, but each school has at least more than 1,000 students.

Zhang Ziyi is now married, and with the Shark Gang being annexed by Hongmen, their father and son have become colleagues since then.

Sitting at the head of the Ministry of Education of Bengang School, Zhang Ziyi's teachers under him have exaggerated to more than 400 scales, except for a few gentlemen who are hired from outside, most of them are the children of students trained by Zhang Ziyi in the school, which makes him very proud of the world.

Every morning, Zhang Ziyi likes to walk around the school, especially in the primary school to watch the hairy boys learn to be like gentlemen shaking their heads and reciting, this scene alone is enough to make Zhang Ziyi not regret not setting foot in the imperial examination in this life.

Until now, Zhang Ziyi finally has a deep understanding of Li Tianyang's various actions that contradict Confucian culture, such as setting up arithmetic, physics and other disciplines, and then allowing women to enroll in school, etc.

"Hello sir!"

On the way to walk, the students with curriculum-style sports exercised in the playground, and after seeing Zhang Ziyi, they all stood still and respectfully greeted Zhang Ziyi.

Zhang Ziyi nodded, looking kindly at this group of students from all over the world, and even the indigenous children of Dayuan Island, and accepted their etiquette without discrimination.

In front of the gate of the school, there were two weak and cowering children, the eldest was eight or nine years old, and the younger was six or seven years old.

"Hello sir!"

After the gatekeeper finished registering, he was about to walk to the school with three big and small people, but just in time for Zhang Ziyi to come out to inspect, he hurriedly said hello.

"Thank you Lao Yao!"

Zhang Ziyi's eyes were full of respect for the janitor, and he did not despise the other party because of his low status. This janitor seems to be lame and walks a little bumpy, but a few years ago, he was also an iron-clad man among the Hongtang sailors, who made great contributions to Hongmen's expansion of territory, but also paid a heavy price.

"This is Mr. Zhang Ziyi, the most knowledgeable person in our school, and he is also the person in charge of the school!"

The janitor who greeted Zhang Ziyi enthusiastically introduced the middle-aged man in front of him to the three villains who had just come to the ramp, and also introduced the origin of these three people to Zhang Ziyi.

"This is the Luo family who only came to settle in Keelung Town yesterday and was instructed by the neighborhood committee to bring their children to our school to report."

"Hello sir!"

The man surnamed Luo hurriedly bowed, and expressed his inner respect to the gentleman in front of him who looked kind, but in the eyes of people in the countryside, he was very respectable.

"This eldest brother doesn't have to be so restrained, I don't dare to say that we will cultivate him into a talent after handing over the child to us, but it's just that our academy will teach them the principles of being a human being and teach them the skills of survival, please rest assured."

Zhang Ziyi kindly looked at the Luo man, and the two big children who were simple and lovely at first glance, made their own promises to the man in front of him.

"Rest assured! How can you not feel at ease! There is Mr. Lao, these two rabbit cubs in my family are very naughty, if they are naughty, they make the gentlemen angry, and the gentlemen will be beaten to death, we will never complain! ”

The Luo man was full of gratitude for his two children to go to school, and he also cherished this opportunity.

"Hahaha, look at the two little guys in the eldest brother's family with a very simple demeanor, where can they be really naughty and naughty, I'm afraid they are so well-behaved!"

Zhang Ziyi smiled politely, suddenly remembered something, and reminded the Luo man: "By the way, in our Hongmen, except for boys, all school-age girls must also be enrolled, I don't know if there are school-age girls in the eldest brother's family?" ”

"This ...... There is also an eleven-year-old girl at home, and she will be married in two years, so I am afraid that I don't have to bother the gentlemen! ”

The Luo man hesitated, and finally told the truth about the family, in his opinion, the eldest son in the family was lucky to be able to go to school, and a girl who was going to marry sooner or later could not be sent to the school.

"This is not good, according to our Hongtang rules, as long as children are less than fifteen years old, both male and female, must be sent to the school to study, otherwise it will be difficult for you to make a living in Keelung Town."

Zhang Ziyi reminded the Luo family, he had long been accustomed to these people's patriarchal thinking, if they didn't remind them, they would really be able to let the girls in the family take care of the housework at home and not let them study.

Here, Zhang Ziyi couldn't help but sigh at Li Tianyang's foresight, in the Hongmen rules and regulations, linking children's study with living and working under Hongmen, so that many immigrants had to pinch their noses and admit it, which is why Bengang School is now prosperous.

"Oh oh oh, I understand!"

When the Luo man faced Zhang Ziyi, he naturally nodded in response, but he was a little unimpressed in his heart, although Hongmen also charged the same amount of restraint for students who were enlightened and studied, but it was actually a loss-making deal.

Unlike the use of physical objects as a gift for apprenticeship in the private school in the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, all the learning utensils are prepared by the students' children's families, the students of Bengang School are divided into two sections each school year as in later generations, respectively, in the busiest season of spring ploughing and autumn harvest each put a month and a half of vacation, so that children can help their families harvest crops together, the cost of a year is only about two taels of silver, and the rest of the paper, ink, pen and inkstone are all included.

In this way, the children's education fees are completely different from those in the Ming Dynasty, and even for people like Roche who have just come to Keelung Town to find a job, the children do not have to pay the fees for the first few years, and they will be enrolled for free for one year, until the Luo family and his family will pay various fees after they have stabilized in Keelung Town.

But it is such a good treatment, Hongmen recruits and shelters families in various places on Dayuan Island, and many people are still reluctant to send their children to them, and they will not repent until they are forced by Hongmen and various neighborhood committees.

Zhang Ziyi is such a character, although he does not have such deep scheming and insight as Li Tianyang, but it is still easy to see through the thoughts of ordinary people.

However, he didn't care about Luo's thoughts, many times in the homes of ordinary people, you may not be able to reason with him clearly, but only after they let them suffer some hardships and hit the south wall will they change their minds, and they don't care how they act after they go back, anyway, as long as the situation is verified, there are Hongmen members and people from the neighborhood committee to let these newcomers know that this is not the consequence of not following the rules of Hongmen.

The three of Luo came, but only one of them went back, but the two children were left in the school on the spot and enrolled in the initiation class.

This little episode actually didn't alarm Zhang Ziyi, the radical, but it was just a coincidence, he just delayed for a while, and then slowly staggered out of the primary school, and went to the place where he liked to hang out in the university department, second only to the primary school.

There are not many classifications in the university department, and many disciplines are overlapping, and many of the elite children selected from the students are specialized in several subjects, such as mathematics and physics, and there are a lot of exercises between the two.

In addition to liking the innocent smiles of the children in the primary school and the respect for Mr. and knowledge from the bottom of his heart, Zhang Ziyi also likes to bring forth the new from the old and the old and watch the elites of the university department discover new knowledge that is well understood.

As the cradle of elite talents in Hongmen, the University Department of Bengang Academy imitates the charter of Hongmen R&D Park, and forms a Shenji Office as an internship in advance, where many excellent Bengang School students brainstorm to understand and discover all kinds of new knowledge, and to witness and practice what they have learned.

For this reason, Zhang Ziyi once ran to Li Tianyang, put him on the shelf as a nominal senior brother, and begged for a sum of money as the capital for the students of the Divine Machinery Department to specialize in knowledge and technology.

At the same time, he is willing to buy all the objects that Zhang Ziyi feels is helpful to the Divine Machine Department and give them to the students of the Divine Machine Department, so that they can toss them, even if these things cannot be exchanged for any return in the end.

The self-striking bell worth thousands of gold, and its rarity and rare preservation of green alum oil, etc., almost let Zhang Ziyi spend all his savings, and a radical of Tang and Tang had a thousand taels of salary and sharing every year, but in the end there was not much money left, and life was like that of ordinary people's homes, but Zhang Ziyi was willing.

In the Divine Machine, there are strange tools everywhere, transparent glassware, and a transmission system with gear bearings, hanging from the zenith to the pulley assembly, if a later generation comes here, it is impossible to say that he will feel like he has walked into a hardware store with a very complete set of tools.

Of course, the effort will always pay off, although the students of the Divine Machine Department may not have sufficient knowledge, and their behavior and insight are still naïve, but their wild imagination, combined with the various tools and colleagues in the Divine Machine Department, still studied a lot of things to use.

The new and improved textile machine is simpler to operate and the efficiency is increased by more than several percent; It can refine the production formula of alloy steel that is harder and more wear-resistant; Grinding wheel tools for grinding steel tools, etc., etc., while handing over these R&D to Hongmendu, they get more and more than the capital investment and the actual rewards distributed to each R&D member, as well as the opportunity for outstanding students to join the R&D park early.

Moreover, in order to encourage the research and development enthusiasm of the Shenji Department, like the newly improved textile machine after being handed over to Qixintang by Hongmen for use, the output of each improved textile machine can also be shared by Bengang School.

Although the share of a single textile machine is not much, but after the total number gradually expanded, it has also become a very important income income of Bengang School.

(End of chapter)